The View From Out Here

The inauguration ceremony itself.

We are all the better for this day. The emotion in the crowd is fairly indescribable—overwhelming, powerful, even healing. A better writer than I can explain what this day meant to black Americans especially, and the emotion in their faces as they stood with pride. But we all felt a sense of renewed pride and, to use our new President’s words, "citizenship", which on this day, in this crush of crowds, felt more like kinship.

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